Minor Knowledge and Microhistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minor Knowledge and Microhistory write by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Minor Knowledge and Microhistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minor Knowledge and Microhistory write by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. This book was released on 2017. Minor Knowledge and Microhistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a New Model of Fragmented History -- PART I Theory and Historiography -- 1 Historiography of Texts: From Literacy to Literacy Practices within the Anglo-Saxon School of Thought -- 2 Scribal Culture in Transnational Perspective -- 3 Local and Global Perspectives as Platforms for Barefoot Historians: A Microhistorical Approach -- PART II The Structure of Culture and Education -- 4 Setting the Scene within the Hard Rock of Reality -- 5 Vernacular Literacy between Two Campaigns
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minor Knowledge and Microhistory write by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Minor Knowledge and Microhistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.
Emotional Experience and Microhistory
Emotional Experience and Microhistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emotional Experience and Microhistory write by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. This book was released on 2020-05-11. Emotional Experience and Microhistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon through his diary, poetry and other writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to address complicated historical situations. The book deals with the many faces of microhistory and applies it’s methodology to the life of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnús Hj. Magnússon (1873–1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19 in 1892, he lived a peripatetic existence in an unstinting struggle with poor health, together with a ceaseless quest for a space to pursue writing and scholarship in accord with his dreams. He produced and accumulated a huge quantity of sources (autobiography, diary, poems, reflections) which are termed by the author as ‘egodocuments’. The book demonstrates how these egodocuments can be applied systematically, revealing unexpected perspectives on his life and demonstrating how integration of diverse sources can open up new perspectives on complex and difficult subjects. In so doing, the author offers an understanding both of how Magnússon’s story has been told, and how it can give insight into such matters as gender relations and sexual life, and the history of emotions. Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern scholarship has shaped scholars’ ideas about egodocuments and microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology.
Fear of Theory
Fear of Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fear of Theory write by . This book was released on 2021-11-29. Fear of Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.
